INSIDE shipping on iOS

• many optimization lessons learned for mobile
• how to deal with shader preloading
• discussion of error detection in automated image comparison tests
• increased game brightness to reduce the use of display backlights to save battery and reduce heat
• using raytracing to remove aliasing in special cases
• improvements to blue noise algorithm

GPU Driven rendering experiments at the Digital Dragons conference

• discussions of problems with old occlusion culling systems
• renders occluders in a pre-pass, uses the depth information to cull instances
• how to implement culling against the depth buffer, remove culled instance from the stream
• stream compaction implementation
• extend the system to handle LOD, materials and manual vertex fetching
• performance results on Nvidia and Intel

SIGNED DISTANCE FIELDS IN UNITY

• overview of how to generate a SDF in unity
• per object SDF at build time
• global SDF aggregation at runtime

Workshop: Shaders for Artists - Part 2

• introduction to shaders workshop in Montreal
• focused on the node-based shader pipeline of Unreal

Never Map Again: Persistent Memory, System Memory, and Nothing In Between

• discussion of characteristics of different ways to pass CPU generated data to the GPU using OpenGL
  • persistent memory (GL_ARB_buffer_storage)
  • client arrays
  • vertex buffer object (VBO)

Scalable GPU Fluid Simulation

• overview of SPH (Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics)
• how it’s implemented in a compute shader
• explanation of a sorted grid acceleration structure

Fractal Raytracing: The Mathy Parts

• how the fractal raytracer was implemented on the GPU
• evaluating the fractal, ray marching and photon simulation

Art Design Deep Dive: Rendering the player as a form of pure energy in Recompile

• discussion of a unique art style rendering technique
• the character is represented from axis aligned voxels
• voxels are created/destroyed on a quantized world space grid as the character moves through the world

GPU Path Tracing in Unity – Part 2

• adds supports for a basic material system with lambert diffuse + phong specular
• explanation of importance sampling

Advice for beginners, who are just getting started in Computer Graphics

• list of resource for beginners into graphics programming

Stochastic all the things: Raytracing in hybrid real-time rendering

• implementation details for reflections, translucency, transparency, shadows
• global illumination uses surfels with world space accumulation

How I got started with shaders (Non-Scary Shader Intro)

• explanations of how to get started with shader programming with unity
• takes the unity toon shader as the starting point to explain concepts and provide a gentle introduction into making modifications to it

The Forge: Release 1.10

• adds support for GPU tracking system that allows to enable/disable features based on the GPU used

Radeon GPU Profiler 1.2

• now includes present events in the system activity view
• explanations for why the driver had to insert barriers